Laxton's Superb (apple)
Intersection of Wyken Pippin x Cox Orange
Laxton's Superb ( also Laxton's Superb and Superb ) is a cultivated apple ( Malus domesticus). The variety originated as a means of crossing from the tasty but difficult to be fitted Cox's Orange Pippin and Wyken.
The apple is tasteful and sensitive to pressure. It was brought as a similar tasting but better storable variant of Cox's Orange in the trade. However, Laxton's Superb causes problems in reliable yield cultivation and is therefore gone out of fashion in recent decades.
The fruits are harvested in early to October and are immediately edible. The apple blossoms late and long. It needs cultivation to a temperate maritime climate with humid summers.
Description
The taste is similar Laxton Superb his father places Cox Orange. The apple can be used as an eating apple, for apple sauce and apple juice. However, the juice yield is comparatively low. He has less favorable properties for baking and apple slices.
The fruit is medium to large in size with an average weight of 120 grams. The apples are larger and rounder than Cox Orange. They are round and mittelbauchig. The color is yellowish green to yellow. Russeting is rare. The sun is hand dyed pale orange - red or crimson, often this coloring is faded or mottled. The flesh is yellowish white to cream-colored. Shortly after the harvest, it is juicy, later it becomes loose and almost mushy.
The trees grow in the medium strong. The crowns are not very pronounced, but wider than Cox Orange. Typical varieties are many medium-length to long verkahlten shoots and branches that hang down at an angle from upright branches. The tree blooms late and long.
Cultivation
Common mutants are Crimson Superb Laxton's Superb sports and Maxton. How Laxton's Superb get these from England. The tree comes from the Atlantic climate of England and thrives in highly temperate climate in which there is neither hot nor cold winter summer. As Cox's Orange it is to have a regular water supply and does not tolerate dry summer. In rain poorer areas that's why he needed loamy well-aerated soils with very good water storage properties.
The optimal time of harvest is important in Laxton's Superb, the time window compared to other apple varieties small. In earlier to harvest the fruits wither often due to late harvesting may lead to crop failure. The yield achieved on M9 about 66 to 80% of the yield of Golden Delicious. Laxton Superb, making it one of the higher yielding varieties on the market. The variety is one of the few apple varieties that fertilizes itself. However, the returns are higher for cross-pollination.
Laxton's Superb shows a marked alternation in the alternate rapidly growing and growing weak years. While in slow-growing years, yield low fails, it comes in strong bearing years, often with numerous small and poorly colored fruits that are susceptible to disease. Normal measures against alternation as early thinning are only moderately effective in Laxton's Superb.
The apple is scab susceptible. On wet and poorly aerated soils often leads to canker of fruit trees. For powdery mildew, however, there is almost no susceptibility. In central and eastern Germany lesions are spread by Fruchtmonilia.
History
The apple was bred as an apple from a number of apples in the nursery Laxton Brothers in Bedford as a descendant of Cox Orange. Several of the cultivars came into the market, but only permanently Laxton's Superb has established itself.
Today Laxton's Superb is still grown on the lower Elbe in the Old Country and the Netherlands. The cultivation in England and the Rhineland has declined sharply in recent decades. From Laxton's Superb was, among other things Tydeman 's Late Orange forth.